Discography and bibliography of the Athapaskan Indians of Southwestern Oregon
© 2010 Don Macnaughtan

Ethnographic Bibliographies no. 3

Introduction

Map of ethnic distribution in southwest Oregon


Chinookan Oral Literature Bibliography
Bibliography of Oregon Athapaskan Languages
Indian Languages of Western Oregon

the kwatami tunne people on the New River, Floras Lake and the Sixes River (8 villages)
the yukiche tunne people at Euchre Creek (1 village)
the toto tunne, mikono tunne and cheme tunne people along the Lower Rogue River (22 villages)
the chetleshin tunne on Pistol River (1 village)
the kwaishtunne tunne on Lone Ranch Creek (1 village)
the chedi tunne or Chetco along the Lower Chetco River (10 villages)

Athapaskans in the interior of southern Oregon were:

the mishi kwutine tunne or Upper Coquille along the Coquille River (28 villages)
the etnemi tunne or Upper Umpqua people in the Umpqua Valley (8 villages)
the shista quista or Shasta Costa in the Rogue River Gorge (13 villages)
the taldash tunne dade or Taltushtuntede along Galice Creek (2 villages)
the dahkohbe dade or Dakubetede in the Applegate River Valley (18 villages)
the gusla dade people in the lower Illinois River Valley (4 villages)

the he nag gi living along the Lower Smith River (8 villages)
the toli owa living around Lake Earl (4 villages)
the ta ta tenne people at Elk Creek (1 village)

Frachtenberg, Leo J. Tututni Indian Music. 1915. 14 wax cylinders. 2 10-inch tapes. 50min.

• These recordings are held in the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (cylinders no. 884-897, tape nos. AFS 18,471 and 22,169). The recordings were made at the end of 1915 from Billie Sampson, Bensell Orton, Hoxie Simmons, and Archie Johnson at Siletz. There are songs in the Galice Creek, Chasta Costa, and Tututni Athapaskan languages. In addition, cylinder no. 888 is in the Umpqua Athapaskan language from Jack West, August 1915. Thirteen of the songs by Hoxie Simmons have been dubbed to tape no. AFS 22,169, and 27 of the remaining songs are archived on tape no. AFS 18,471 (see the Archive of Folk Culture web site.) All the recordings are indexed in The Federal Cylinder Project: A Guide to Field Cylinder Collections in Federal Agencies, Volume 3. Ed. Judith A. Gray. Washington: American Folklife Center, 1988. 279-286.

Golla, Victor K., and Ida Bensell. Vocabulary in Tututni from Ida Bensell, Siletz, Oregon. 1962. 27 min.

• Audiotape recording (no. LA 143) in the Berkeley Language Center, University of California at Berkeley. The wordlist recording is of fair quality, and has extensive documentation.

Jacobs, Melville, and Coquille Thompson. Upper Coquille Athabaskan Music and Texts. 1934. 21 acetate discs.

• Recordings no. 14705-14725 in the Melville Jacobs Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.

Jacobs, Melville, and Hoxie Simmons. Galice Creek Athabaskan Music and Texts. 1935. 16 acetate discs.

• Recordings no. 14726-14729, 14740-14751 in the Melville Jacobs Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.

Jacobs, Melville. Melville Jacobs Collection: Items 19-28, 43-46. 1975.

• Seven audio cassettes of Coos and Athapaskan material from the Melville Jacobs Collection held at Southwest Oregon Community College Library, Coos Bay.

Marr, John P., and Coquille Thompson. Upper Coquille Athabaskan Sound Recordings from Coquille Thompson. 1941. 34 aluminum discs.

• Recordings no. 970-1003 in the John Peabody Harrington Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Washington DC. Tape recordings of this set were presented to the Coquille Indian Tribe by the President of the University of Oregon in May 1998.

Marr, John P., and Hoxie Simmons. Galice Creek Athabaskan sound recordings from Hoxie Simmons. 1941. 20 aluminum discs.

• Recordings no. 1097-1116 in the John Peabody Harrington Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Washington DC.

Marr, John P., and Lucy Smith. Tolowa-Tututni Sound Recordings from Lucy Smith. 1941. 14 aluminum discs.

• Recordings no. 1244-1257 in the John Peabody Harrington Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Washington DC.

Metcalf, Leon V., and Hoxie Simmons. Tape Recording of Galice Creek Athabaskan Music from Hoxie Simmons at Siletz, Oregon. 1955.

• Audiotape recording in the Anthropology Archives, Washington State Museum, Seattle.

Pierce, Joe E., and Hoxie Simmons. Galice Creek Athabaskan Words and Phrases from Hoxie Simmons at Siletz, Oregon. 1962.

• Audiotape recordings reputedly held at Portland State University, Portland. The tape has apparently gone missing in the last few years.

Pierce, Joe E., and Ida Bensell. Tape recordings of Tututni Athabaskan from Ida Bensell at Siletz, Oregon. 1962.

• Audiotape recordings held at Portland State University, Portland. Fate unknown.
  

Molly Carmichael and her mother Yannah Catfish.
These Tututni women, photographed around 1909,
are dressed in full ceremonial regalia, including
basketry hats, necklaces of dentalium, shell
and beads, and elaborate buckskin aprons
decorated with pine nuts, thimbles, and fringes.

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19. - - -. "Galice Noun and Verb Stems." Linguistics 104 (1973): 49-73. Print.

20. Huntley, Jeremiah. "A Scout to Rogue River in 1856." Curry County Echoes June 1975: 5-8. Print.

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25. Moss, Madonna L., and George B. Wasson. "Intimate Relations with the Past: The Story of an Athapaskan Village on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America." World Archaeology 29 (1998): 317-332. Print.

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28. Sapir, Edward. Notes on Chasta Costa Phonology and Morphology. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Museum, 1914. 69p. Print.

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